Word: programing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...just yesterday, Landes firmly refuted Patterson's characterization of his program, saying that the Sociology chair's comments reflect "very serious intellectual insecurities...
Several of us in Sociology have serious reservations, indeed qualms of conscience, recruiting young faculty to this program. There does come a point when one feels guilty of something intellectually sinful, in inviting, and persuading, a talented young scholar to academic suicide...
Landes, who chairs the 21-member Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, made the request in a recent meeting with Spence after the Sociology Department's acting chair and head tutor attacked the interdisciplinary program's academic legitimacy...
...addition to criticizing Social Studies' curriculum, Patterson said the program is "a graveyard of academic careers," because junior professors with joint appointments have not received tenure in its 30-year history. Patterson attributed this to the high teaching loads for Social Studies professors, which keep them from producing enough written work...
Patterson said persuading new faculty to teach in the interdisciplinary program is like "inviting them to commit academic suicide...